topic Re: Use disks marked as spares to create new aggregate in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9064#M608 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes. You first unassign them on current owner (disk assign -s unowned). It has to be done for each disk separately. Then just assign them on the partner.</P><P></P><P>Be sure to disable disk.auto_assign when doing it, otherwise disks may be magically assigned back <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:52:13 GMT aborzenkov 2011-10-27T16:52:13Z Use disks marked as spares to create new aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9055#M606 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sorry, but I'm new to NetApp.&nbsp; Basically I have 48 SATA disks that are marked as spares on controllerA but are not assigned to any aggregate.&nbsp; I would like to use these disks to create a new aggregate on controllerB but I am not exactly sure how to accomplish this.&nbsp; Any help/guidence would be appreciated....</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:42:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9055#M606 CFINN8765 2025-06-05T06:42:36Z Use disks marked as spares to create new aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9060#M607 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is it just a matter of changing the ownership of the disks from controllerA to controllerB?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:05:37 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9060#M607 CFINN8765 2011-10-27T15:05:37Z Re: Use disks marked as spares to create new aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9064#M608 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes. You first unassign them on current owner (disk assign -s unowned). It has to be done for each disk separately. Then just assign them on the partner.</P><P></P><P>Be sure to disable disk.auto_assign when doing it, otherwise disks may be magically assigned back <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:52:13 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9064#M608 aborzenkov 2011-10-27T16:52:13Z Use disks marked as spares to create new aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9073#M609 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thanks for that final tip, marked yours as correct.&nbsp; :^)</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:10:03 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Use-disks-marked-as-spares-to-create-new-aggregate/m-p/9073#M609 CFINN8765 2011-10-27T17:10:03Z